Reviving this thread - which I read with interest a while ago but didn't contribute to - because I am running into some problems in my social circle. I am intense and I don't mean to be. Heck, I even am when I'm trying very hard not to be. It keeps getting me in trouble. I'm coping a lot of passive-aggressive stuff from a few people and I don't live in a place big enough to offend people in the home school circles!
Anyway, I'm not really sure if it's the intensity, or if I'm just rude somehow. I suspect the intensity because I really have tried!
I am not sure how to tone it down any more, and also not sure if I really should. I'm not talking about being rude, I just mean that I am reaching my mid-30's and I'm getting tired of pretending to be something I'm not. Why should I pretend I don't care about things that I do? Why should I pretend not to know anything about something when I do?
Wasn't this supposed to get easier when I left school?
How do you cope with the social impacts of intensity?